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Dowie sitting pretty

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Iain Dowie has endured some dreadfully difficult times of late. A discredited manager at Charlton Athletic and the £1m bill from the court case with his former employer Simon Jordan at Crystal Palace would be enough to devastate weaker men, but the Coventry City manager is made of sterner stuff and so is the team he is building at the Ricoh Arena.

Dowie deserves a change in fortune and the manner in which his side recovered from gift-wrapping Preston North End their first goal of the season to record their third win victory in four games and return to the summit of the Championship thanks to Dele Adebola and Michael Doyle, suggests that their could be better times around the corner for the likeable former Northern Ireland striker.

The way he and his assistant Tim Flowers have generated an almost instant bond with Coventry supporters was clearly demonstrated as the